A young woman's knowledge of Shakespeare helps her solve a five-year-old mystery.
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00:03:18Uh, don't shoot, it's me.
00:03:21Jody.
00:03:22Hi.
00:03:23I was, um, just passing by.
00:03:25I thought I'd buy you some lunch.
00:03:27Oh, no chance.
00:03:28I'm off to Rome.
00:03:30Oh, lucky you.
00:03:32Unlucky Rome.
00:03:35Well, it's a nice one.
00:03:36Straightforward surveillance.
00:03:37No problems, lots of loot.
00:03:39It won't take long.
00:03:40Well, you should stay on a few days.
00:03:42Maybe.
00:03:43Do you know any girls in Rome?
00:03:44I've got some dynamite numbers.
00:03:46Jody, I wish you wouldn't do that.
00:03:48Do what?
00:03:49That.
00:03:50Kid around like that.
00:03:51Oh, I'm not kidding.
00:03:53I know a lot of girls in Rome who'd be very...
00:03:55Jody, you're my wife.
00:03:57Well, I've got a big heart.
00:03:59Anyway, if you happen to be in Rome...
00:04:01We are married.
00:04:02Separated.
00:04:03By mutual agreement.
00:04:04Yes, but still separated.
00:04:05And still married.
00:04:07Okay.
00:04:08Okay, go to Rome.
00:04:09Have a lousy time.
00:04:10I really don't care.
00:04:11Who said I was going to have a lousy time?
00:04:12I know lots of people in Rome.
00:04:13Some of them girls.
00:04:15Who?
00:04:17Well, does it matter?
00:04:19No.
00:04:21No.
00:04:23Of course it doesn't matter.
00:04:25We agreed, a trial separation.
00:04:26You go your way, I'll go mine.
00:04:28Right.
00:04:30What have you been doing?
00:04:32Oh, this and that.
00:04:33Actually, I've been pretty busy.
00:04:35Not so busy you couldn't drop by to ask me out to lunch?
00:04:37I was just passing by, I told you.
00:04:39But apart from that, you've been having lots of fun?
00:04:41Yes, I have.
00:04:43Last night, for instance.
00:04:44Having lots of fun, then?
00:04:45Um, yes.
00:04:47Another party, I suppose.
00:04:48Out all night.
00:04:49Oh, dear.
00:04:50Alone.
00:04:51You were home by 7.30.
00:04:52No callers.
00:04:53Your bedroom light was out by 10.
00:04:54Johnny, were you spying on me?
00:04:56No, no, no, no.
00:04:57I just happened to be passing by.
00:04:59That's a mess.
00:05:01Come on, let me do it.
00:05:02Let me do it, I do it better.
00:05:07Oh, it's crazy.
00:05:09Jodie, you're crazy.
00:05:11You hated the thought of sitting around at home cooking for me,
00:05:13and now you just sit around and cook for yourself.
00:05:15Where's the sense in that?
00:05:19Jodie, I still love you.
00:05:21You still love me.
00:05:22Now, I know you still love me, so why don't we stop this...
00:05:24Good idea.
00:05:25Girls love to be read to.
00:05:27Now, Jodie, listen.
00:05:29There aren't any other girls.
00:05:30There will be any other girls.
00:05:31You know that.
00:05:33Now, come with me.
00:05:34Come to Rome.
00:05:35Oh, Johnny, don't.
00:05:36It'll be hot, fun, romantic.
00:05:38You'll be working.
00:05:39Only for the first couple of days or so.
00:05:40After that, we can do what you like.
00:05:41Oh, don't tell me about those first couple of days.
00:05:43What do I do?
00:05:44I don't want to wander around Rome alone,
00:05:46getting my bottom pinched.
00:05:47Well, you wouldn't have to.
00:05:49Listen, you could be useful.
00:05:50There are notes to be taken, reports to be typed up.
00:05:52Useful?
00:05:53Notes to be taken?
00:05:54Johnny, that's what it's all about.
00:05:56Oh, Jodie, please.
00:05:57I want to be my own person.
00:05:59I want to be somebody.
00:06:00You're my wife.
00:06:04Well, I guess that's not enough.
00:06:07Oh, Johnny.
00:06:08Johnny, I love you.
00:06:10I really do.
00:06:12But there's got to be more than that.
00:06:14Jodie.
00:06:16Look, I can't miss that plane.
00:06:20Okay.
00:06:21Have a safe trip.
00:06:23Yeah.
00:06:24Oh, come on.
00:06:25Oh, wait.
00:06:27Hey, I could always mine the store for you while you're gone.
00:06:31Solve a few cases.
00:06:32Nail a few killers.
00:06:33Jodie, will you come on?
00:06:37Oh, dear.
00:06:38Well, you're just not ready for me yet, that's all.
00:06:40What?
00:06:41Well, I was only kidding about mining the store, but...
00:06:43But?
00:06:44Well, if you'd said yes.
00:06:46Oh, come on, Jodie.
00:06:47This is a detective agency, for crying out loud.
00:06:49It's man's work.
00:06:50Johnny, if you'd said yes, we might find out...
00:06:52Look, if this is going to develop into a women's lib tirade another round,
00:06:55I'm going to have to take a rain check on it.
00:06:57Look, my plane leaves...
00:06:58I'm only just going to make it.
00:07:00Okay.
00:07:03Jodie, look, I do love you.
00:07:05I just... I just don't have the time.
00:07:12If you change your mind, I'll be staying at the Royale.
00:07:19Why didn't you say yes?
00:07:26Oh.
00:07:48Er, excuse me.
00:07:50May I help you?
00:07:51Oh.
00:07:53Baxter.
00:07:54Confidential enquiries.
00:07:56Recommended.
00:07:57J. Baxter, thank you.
00:07:59Yes.
00:08:00Yes, that's right.
00:08:02You?
00:08:03J. Baxter.
00:08:04Jodie Baxter.
00:08:06Oh.
00:08:07Recommended.
00:08:08I highly recommend it.
00:08:12Woman.
00:08:13I hadn't expected.
00:08:16Why not, eh?
00:08:18Everything's changing.
00:08:19The whole world is changing.
00:08:23Er, forgive me.
00:08:24My name is Tully.
00:08:25Arnold Tully.
00:08:26Oh, well, how do you do, Mr Tully?
00:08:27How do you do?
00:08:31Shouldn't we go in?
00:08:33Wait, er...
00:08:34Oh, no.
00:08:35Actually, you see, I was just on my way out to lunch, but...
00:08:37Oh.
00:08:38Well, if it's important, you could join me.
00:08:39If it's not, you...
00:08:40Oh, it's important, yes.
00:08:42My niece,
00:08:44Annabella,
00:08:46murdered.
00:08:48Murder?
00:08:49Mm.
00:08:50Oh, well, that's for the police.
00:08:51No, no.
00:08:52You...
00:08:53You don't understand.
00:08:54She was murdered five years ago.
00:08:55Since then, the police have...
00:08:56Well, they've made no progress at all.
00:08:58Five years?
00:08:59Im...
00:09:00Impotent, er...
00:09:01Abortive years.
00:09:03And nothing.
00:09:04Nothing.
00:09:05That's why I decided, finally,
00:09:08a private detective.
00:09:11Five years,
00:09:12and you want me to find the killer?
00:09:14Oh, no.
00:09:15No, I, er...
00:09:17I know who the killer is.
00:09:19I want you to prove it.
00:09:26Here.
00:09:29It was somewhere here.
00:09:33Somewhere.
00:09:38Somewhere.
00:09:41It's hard to be exactly sure.
00:09:46Five years, or most of the day.
00:09:50So many things have changed.
00:09:55It's a long time.
00:09:58It seems like yesterday.
00:10:01It will always seem like yesterday.
00:10:05They say that when one falls in love,
00:10:07time stands still.
00:10:13Perhaps that's true.
00:10:15But it stands still for tragedy.
00:10:19As well as for love.
00:10:23It stands still when one loses...
00:10:30such a precious thing.
00:10:35I never married.
00:10:36They dubbed me the misogynist of the family,
00:10:39the woman hater.
00:10:41The truth is,
00:10:43women always scared me a bit.
00:10:46And then, suddenly,
00:10:47my brother and his wife were both killed,
00:10:50and I became a parent
00:10:52with a woman of my own to care for.
00:10:55A child woman.
00:10:57Not someone to be scared of.
00:11:00Someone to mould.
00:11:03To watch grow and blossom.
00:11:09Someone to love...
00:11:12at last.
00:11:16I want him behind bars.
00:11:20I want him to pay for what he did.
00:11:23Who, Mr Dully?
00:11:25Who?
00:11:26Peter Ingram.
00:11:40You see, they all know.
00:11:42There isn't a dozen people in the whole town who'll talk to him.
00:11:45Some of the young men tried to beat him up.
00:11:49But he's a powerful man.
00:11:52Why doesn't he leave?
00:11:54Bravado.
00:11:57Killer.
00:11:58A brutal killer.
00:12:00Walking the streets.
00:12:03Well, what did the police say about him?
00:12:05Yeah, well, Tully's right.
00:12:07No doubt about it.
00:12:09Well, if you know that, then why didn't you...
00:12:11Knowing's one thing, proving's another.
00:12:13Isn't that right, Charlie?
00:12:15Oh, we pulled him in soon after the murder, held him.
00:12:18How long was it, Charlie? About three days?
00:12:21Four.
00:12:22Yeah, and then we had to let him go.
00:12:24I mean, we knew he did it, but we had to let him go.
00:12:26Oh, how do you know he did it?
00:12:28Oh, you know a lot of stuff, don't you, Charlie?
00:12:30Well, I mean, I know he did it,
00:12:32but I don't know how he did it.
00:12:34Oh, how do you know he did it?
00:12:36Oh, you know, a lot of circumstantial stuff.
00:12:38Timings, opportunity.
00:12:40Oh, and he, uh...
00:12:42He fancied her.
00:12:44Yeah, they'd worked together on some amateur theatrical thing,
00:12:46and he fancied her.
00:12:47Besides, I mean, he was the only possible suspect.
00:12:50Oh, yeah, it was definitely him.
00:12:52Yeah, we had enough evidence to bring him to trial.
00:12:55You did?
00:12:56Yeah, but not enough to guarantee a conviction.
00:12:58You bring a man to trial, and they find him not guilty,
00:13:01they can never touch him again.
00:13:03Well, it's been five years.
00:13:05It seems to me you haven't touched him at all.
00:13:07No, we couldn't take the chance.
00:13:09But one day...
00:13:11One day, some vital little factor may pop up, and, uh...
00:13:15Like what? Like him doing it again?
00:13:18Mm-hmm. That's possible.
00:13:21Oh, that's so cold-blooded.
00:13:24That's immoral.
00:13:25That's fact. It's one of the facts of law.
00:13:28You think I like seeing a murderer walk free?
00:13:31Still, Tilly's brought in private help,
00:13:34so, uh, maybe you'll show us all the way, eh?
00:13:37Well, maybe I will.
00:13:38Look, Miss Baxter, I'm not fool enough
00:13:40to turn down any kind of help from wherever,
00:13:42even from a woman.
00:13:43I'll tell you what I'll do.
00:13:45I'll give you all the cooperation you need.
00:13:47Now, these files are supposed to be confidential,
00:13:49but, uh, if you want to browse through them,
00:13:51please yourself, OK?
00:13:53Well, thank you.
00:13:55And, uh, anything that's not in there, ask me.
00:13:58I was on the case.
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00:15:31Ah!
00:15:33What do you think, Charlie?
00:15:35Hmm?
00:15:36Our girl detective.
00:15:38She might turn up something. A fresh eye.
00:15:40I didn't mean that. There's nothing to turn up, is there?
00:15:42No, I meant her.
00:15:44That figure.
00:15:45Your eyes practically fell out your cheeks,
00:15:48you sexy devil.
00:15:50I'm sorry.
00:15:51I'm sorry.
00:15:52I'm sorry.
00:15:53I'm sorry.
00:15:54I'm sorry.
00:15:55I'm sorry.
00:15:56I'm sorry.
00:15:57I'm sorry.
00:15:58You sexy devil.
00:16:00Hmm.
00:16:01Yeah, could do with a few detectives like that around here.
00:16:04It'd be a big improvement on you.
00:16:06George, go home, George.
00:16:08Go home, George.
00:16:09You're always saying that.
00:16:10Give my regards to your wife.
00:16:12Oh, shh.
00:16:13That's below the belt, Charlie.
00:16:15Ah, you're just jealous.
00:16:16Just because you're not married.
00:16:18Because you haven't found this right yet.
00:16:20Or maybe you have.
00:16:22Now, you're not telling me, eh?
00:16:24Goodbye, George.
00:16:25See you.
00:16:26George.
00:16:28You told her wrong.
00:16:30The only possible suspect?
00:16:33What about that uncle of hers?
00:16:35Tully.
00:16:37Now, there was an unhealthy relationship.
00:16:53I'll get it for you.
00:16:55Thanks.
00:16:59This one?
00:17:01Fine.
00:17:18I teach back home in America.
00:17:21The flora and fauna of a foreign country.
00:17:24I would have thought they had birch trees in America.
00:17:26Oh, yes, they do.
00:17:28Yes, but actually, you know, uh, English birch.
00:17:32Did you know they import genuine London fog in cans?
00:17:36And Scottish water.
00:17:39Anyway, the kids will love it.
00:17:41I wish I'd had a teacher who looked like you.
00:17:45Yes.
00:17:48Is that all?
00:17:51Yes.
00:17:52Then how about some genuine English tea?
00:17:54I live just on the edge of the wood.
00:17:56No, well, actually, I left my car.
00:17:58It is quite safe.
00:17:59Hardly anyone comes this way anymore.
00:18:01Besides, it's only a few minutes.
00:18:05Okay.
00:18:07Yes, I'd love to.
00:18:08Go on.
00:18:09After you.
00:18:12The End
00:18:18Till I compare thee to a summer's day,
00:18:22Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
00:18:27Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
00:18:32And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
00:18:38Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
00:18:43And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
00:18:48And every fair from fair sometime declines
00:18:54By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed.
00:19:00But thy eternal summer shall not
00:19:08Are you an actor?
00:19:10Oh, was.
00:19:12Once upon a time.
00:19:14Ten years of it.
00:19:16Then I came to the conclusion that
00:19:18Laurence Olivier I was not.
00:19:21So I packed it in.
00:19:23And what do you do now?
00:19:25I write.
00:19:27Oh.
00:19:28What kind of writing?
00:19:30Oh, this and that.
00:19:31A bit for the newspapers.
00:19:33Some drama criticism.
00:19:35I'm an authority on lousy actors,
00:19:37having been one myself.
00:19:39Yes, I used to do a regular column until...
00:19:43Until they found someone better.
00:19:46Milk and sugar?
00:19:48No sugar.
00:20:06Don't you find it a little spooky,
00:20:09living here all alone?
00:20:11I find it private.
00:20:15I do sit down.
00:20:19So you don't do any acting now at all, then?
00:20:22No.
00:20:24I'm a writer.
00:20:26I write.
00:20:28I'm a writer.
00:20:30I'm a writer.
00:20:32So you don't do any acting now at all, then?
00:20:35No.
00:20:37Not even local amateur things?
00:20:39Well, I've helped old Williams out a couple of times.
00:20:42Williams, he owns the local bookshop
00:20:44and runs the Amateur Dramatic Society.
00:20:46I've done the odd thing for him once in a while.
00:20:49Well, I suppose that's not a bad way of getting to meet people.
00:20:52Well, girls, anyway.
00:20:54Oh, well, there have been one or two occasions
00:20:56when it has been...
00:20:59Leave it.
00:21:01Somebody just...
00:21:02Leave it!
00:21:04They'll have run away by now.
00:21:07They always run away.
00:21:10Does this happen often?
00:21:13Not as often as it did.
00:21:21Small towns are funny things.
00:21:23They're close, like a family.
00:21:25Well, I...
00:21:27I had a bit of a problem with this town a few years ago
00:21:30and it won't let me forget it.
00:21:33You'd think after all this time they'd get tired.
00:21:36You'd think they'd forget sometime.
00:21:39Why don't you call the police?
00:21:41The police.
00:22:00Whatever it was, they've long gone by now.
00:22:07You said you had a problem before. What did you do?
00:22:09Well, it's what they think I did.
00:22:11Look, do you mind if we drop it?
00:22:13No.
00:22:18Are you going to be around here long?
00:22:20No, just a few days.
00:22:22I'd like to buy you dinner.
00:22:24There are a couple of places where they'll still serve me.
00:22:27Actually, I'm going to be pretty busy.
00:22:30I see.
00:22:35Thank you for the tea.
00:22:37You're welcome.
00:22:39I really ought to be going now.
00:22:41I'll walk you to your car.
00:22:43No, that's all right. Please, I know where it is.
00:22:45That's right, and you know where I am.
00:22:47If you should change your mind.
00:22:58Hey!
00:23:14Happy seeing you.
00:23:27Happy seeing you.
00:23:57Happy seeing you.
00:24:27Happy seeing you.
00:24:53Got a bit jumpy? For a detective?
00:24:56You?
00:24:58I lost you back there.
00:25:00I've got to cross here to meet you.
00:25:02Why didn't you call out?
00:25:04Because he might have heard me.
00:25:06Ingram, if he had something in mind, I didn't want to put him off.
00:25:09Well, thanks. Thanks a lot.
00:25:11That's why I'm here.
00:25:13I knew the first place you'd head for would be here and then Ingram's.
00:25:16You didn't think I'd let you walk into a killer's house
00:25:19without police protection, did you?
00:25:22I left my car down the road a bit.
00:25:26You don't mind, do you?
00:25:28No, I don't mind.
00:25:38How long have you been here?
00:25:40A while.
00:25:42Then you must have seen who did it.
00:25:44Who did what?
00:25:46Well, somebody threw a rock through Ingram's window.
00:25:49Did they now?
00:25:51Or was it you?
00:25:53No, it damn well wasn't.
00:25:55And if I had seen who did it, I'd have looked the other way.
00:25:58Anything that rubs Ingram's nerves raw is OK with me.
00:26:01Anything. It'll make him break and give himself away.
00:26:04Yes, well, that only works if you're sure of one thing.
00:26:07And what's that?
00:26:09That he's the man you want.
00:26:16She really was pretty.
00:26:18She was beautiful.
00:26:21You know, it's very odd.
00:26:23The police reports are so full of Ingram and his behaviour.
00:26:27There's very little about her, her state of mind.
00:26:30Where was she going that day?
00:26:32She merely went for a walk.
00:26:34No.
00:26:36You found something?
00:26:38No, it's just that she was a woman and so am I.
00:26:41See, she wouldn't have been just going for a walk
00:26:44as it had been raining.
00:26:46But she did go for a walk.
00:26:49A long walk down a muddy path that doesn't go anywhere.
00:26:52Except to Ingram's cottage.
00:26:54It's a mile further on.
00:26:56Yes, I know that.
00:26:58I met him today.
00:27:00And?
00:27:03Well, I don't know.
00:27:05You see, a woman usually takes a walk like that.
00:27:08If she has something on her mind or if she's going to meet her lover...
00:27:12Lover? She was a child.
00:27:14Well, she was 17 years old.
00:27:20I...
00:27:24I would have known. She would have told me.
00:27:27Would she?
00:27:29How would you have reacted?
00:27:31Angry? Protective? Jealous?
00:27:33I was responsible for her.
00:27:36Well, Mr Tully, that would have been a perfectly normal reaction.
00:27:39A father's reaction.
00:27:42You've kept your room exactly as it was, haven't you?
00:27:45May I see it?
00:27:47May you please went over it with a fine-tooth comb?
00:27:50Well, yes, I know that. Not with a woman's eye.
00:27:53May I, please?
00:28:12I'll leave you to it, then.
00:28:16Please, be kind to leave everything as you find it.
00:28:23Well, yes, of course I will.
00:28:31I'm sorry.
00:28:33I'm sorry.
00:28:35I'm sorry.
00:28:37I'm sorry.
00:28:40DOORBELL RINGS
00:29:01Oh, sorry.
00:29:03I'll come back and do that later.
00:29:05Oh, no, please, that's all right.
00:29:07Well, Mr Tully likes it kept clean.
00:29:09Insists.
00:29:11Clean and just as it always was.
00:29:13I hope you catch him.
00:29:15Who?
00:29:17Ingram. That's what you're here for, isn't it?
00:29:19Ah, yes.
00:29:21Yes, I hope you catch him.
00:29:23She was lovely, Miss Annabella, lovely.
00:29:25You knew her well, then?
00:29:27Oh, since she was that high,
00:29:29I was the last person to see her alive.
00:29:31Last but one, that is.
00:29:33She came into the kitchen, she did, to borrow a bag.
00:29:36A bag?
00:29:38What kind of bag?
00:29:40Oh, a plastic thing.
00:29:42Like you use in the deep freeze.
00:29:44And she tripped out again.
00:29:46Oh, it's a lovely morning, Aunty Fitch, she said.
00:29:48Aunty Fitch.
00:29:50Her last words.
00:29:52That's my name, see?
00:29:54I'm Mrs Fitch, but she always called me Aunty.
00:29:56A lovely day.
00:29:58But hadn't it been raining?
00:30:00Well, it had just stopped,
00:30:02but it was a lovely day to her.
00:30:04She didn't know she was going to have a knife
00:30:06plunged into her ribs, did she?
00:30:08So she was really especially happy that day, then?
00:30:10Mm-hmm.
00:30:12Why?
00:30:14I don't know.
00:30:16It had something to do with that book, though.
00:30:18What book?
00:30:20The one she had with her.
00:30:22Cuddling it, she was, like it was something special.
00:30:24Hanging it would be too good for that man.
00:30:26They don't even do that now.
00:30:28So she left, taking a book with her.
00:30:30I told you.
00:30:32Um, what kind of book was it?
00:30:34Oh, a Shakespeare thing.
00:30:36Like that one.
00:30:38Yes.
00:30:40Exactly like that one.
00:30:42Ah.
00:30:44But, Mrs Fitch, there wasn't any book
00:30:46found on the body.
00:30:48Did you tell the police about this?
00:30:50Oh, I told them.
00:30:52It's had a lot of attention they paid me.
00:30:54Not important, they said.
00:30:56Well, neither it was.
00:30:58The important thing is for you to get that
00:31:00book.
00:31:30Stucked on for years.
00:31:32Ah, yes.
00:31:34Here we are.
00:31:36It's what I call one of my perennials.
00:31:38Student passes exam,
00:31:40Christmas, a birthday.
00:31:42It's an always welcome gift.
00:31:44Do you keep a record of all your sales?
00:31:46You mean copies sold at a particular period?
00:31:48Well, yes, so that we can restock.
00:31:50And, um, how far back
00:31:52do your records go?
00:31:54Five years, maybe?
00:31:56Yes, she did.
00:31:58She loved
00:32:00the theatre.
00:32:02Got that from me, I suppose.
00:32:04Were you an actor, too?
00:32:06No.
00:32:08No, it's just that I always found the
00:32:10fantasy world of the theatre
00:32:12infinitely preferable to the realities
00:32:14that life has to offer.
00:32:16So she only
00:32:18acted in amateur groups, then?
00:32:20Yes, but she was good.
00:32:22Very good.
00:32:25We...
00:32:27talked of sending her
00:32:29to a drama school.
00:32:31Was her Rosalind good?
00:32:35Rosalind in As You Like It?
00:32:37She did play that, didn't she?
00:32:39Superbly.
00:32:41Yeah.
00:32:43I'm prejudiced, of course, but
00:32:45I thought it was...
00:32:47The most beautiful Rosalind you'd ever seen?
00:32:55For the most beautiful Rosalind
00:32:57I've ever seen.
00:32:59From the worst Oberon ever.
00:33:01Did you give her that book?
00:33:06Well, somebody did.
00:33:08And you know what I found out?
00:33:10The day before she died, the bookshop
00:33:12sold a book just like that,
00:33:14A Midsummer Night's Dream.
00:33:16Now, I think that Annabella bought that book
00:33:18to give to someone.
00:33:20Who?
00:33:22To Oberon.
00:33:24The worst Oberon ever.
00:33:26Mr. Tully, I think that
00:33:28Oberon murdered your niece.
00:33:44Ingram was an actor.
00:33:46Mr. Ingram?
00:33:48Jodie Baxter.
00:33:50Jodie Baxter.
00:33:52Yes, is that dinner invitation still open?
00:34:00Mr. Ingram?
00:34:06Mr. Ingram?
00:34:08Oh, I...
00:34:10A detective.
00:34:12A detective!
00:34:14A dirty detective!
00:34:16A professional
00:34:18professional snitch.
00:34:30Who told you?
00:34:32I still have some friends left.
00:34:34Williams called.
00:34:36He told me you'd been snooping
00:34:38around the bookshop.
00:34:40I am going to bleed to death.
00:34:42Hold it there.
00:34:48Here, give me that.
00:34:54Don't waste any more of it.
00:34:56Glass!
00:35:12Why did you come here tonight?
00:35:14What else can I tell?
00:35:18Did you ever play the classics?
00:35:22Eh?
00:35:24The classics, Shakespeare.
00:35:26Well, yes, of course, every actor
00:35:28sooner or later...
00:35:30The Dream.
00:35:32The Dream, did you ever play that?
00:35:34Yes.
00:35:36Oberon?
00:35:38No.
00:35:40Yes.
00:35:42A couple of times, I suppose.
00:35:44How were you?
00:35:46What?
00:35:48How were you? Were you good, bad?
00:35:50I was okay.
00:35:52But you weren't the worst
00:35:54Oberon ever.
00:35:56What?
00:36:00Somebody may remember.
00:36:02Oh, just a minute!
00:36:04Just...
00:36:06Oberon ever.
00:36:10Witch Hazel.
00:36:12Help keep down the bruising.
00:36:16That really was dumb of me
00:36:18to go blundering around those woods after dark.
00:36:20Hmm.
00:36:24You left here to meet Ingram.
00:36:28You did meet him.
00:36:30No, I did not.
00:36:32I never got there.
00:36:34Mr. Briggs, sir.
00:36:36Good evening.
00:36:38Good evening.
00:36:40All right.
00:36:42What happened?
00:36:44Thank you, Mrs. Fitch.
00:36:46That's going to be a nasty bruise.
00:36:48How did you find out about it?
00:36:50News travels fast in a town like this,
00:36:52especially bad news.
00:36:54Now, tell me about it.
00:36:56I just went walking and tripped and fell.
00:36:58That's all.
00:37:00Please.
00:37:02Now he had a go at you.
00:37:06Well, I've got him this time.
00:37:08I'll pull him in.
00:37:10What grounds? I'm not making any complaints.
00:37:12Well, I'm not. I'm not accusing anyone.
00:37:14Not complain?
00:37:16This is all I've been waiting for.
00:37:18Who's side are you on, anyway?
00:37:20What the hell do you want?
00:37:22I want to find the man who killed Annabella.
00:37:24That's what I want.
00:37:30Let's go.
00:38:00Let's go.
00:38:14Miss Baxter.
00:38:18Found something?
00:38:20Mm-hmm. Look.
00:38:22What do you think this is?
00:38:24Makes a change from the usual
00:38:26heart and arrow.
00:38:28And this,
00:38:30the cranny is right and sinister.
00:38:32I'm sorry?
00:38:34Haven't you heard about Shakespeare?
00:38:36Played it once when I was a kid at school.
00:38:38Hmm.
00:38:44Still looking for a vital clue?
00:38:46No time to waste.
00:38:48Still looking for a vital clue?
00:38:50No chance.
00:38:52We had the best forensics men in the country.
00:38:54Oh.
00:38:56Why are you here?
00:38:58I thought I'd take a country walk.
00:39:00No.
00:39:02I don't think so.
00:39:04You're right.
00:39:06I thought I'd wander and recreate.
00:39:08You never know.
00:39:10What happened to your face?
00:39:14Ciao.
00:39:18Ciao.
00:39:48Shh.
00:39:52Shh.
00:40:18Shh.
00:40:42PHONE RINGS
00:40:44PHONE RINGS
00:40:48Hello?
00:40:50Oh, right.
00:40:54Johnny?
00:40:56Jody?
00:40:58Hi, how are you?
00:41:00I'm fine. How are you?
00:41:02Well, I'm in a bit of a mess.
00:41:04I'm sorry, what was that?
00:41:06This is a hell of a bad line.
00:41:08I said I'm in a mess.
00:41:10No, I still didn't get that.
00:41:12Miss me?
00:41:14Well, I miss you, too.
00:41:16Oh, no, you don't understand.
00:41:18I think I realize how lonely your job is.
00:41:20Well, that's marvelous.
00:41:22What?
00:41:24That's the best news I've had all week.
00:41:26What is?
00:41:28That you're lonely.
00:41:30Look, Jody, I should be back in a few days.
00:41:32Oh, Johnny, well, that's terrific.
00:41:34Uh, listen, I need some advice.
00:41:36I need you, too.
00:41:38Look, I'll try and cut this short,
00:41:40get back as soon as I can.
00:41:42Oh, Johnny, it's no use.
00:41:44It's okay, I'll work it out for myself.
00:41:46I'm sure we can work it out, my love.
00:41:48Never had any doubts about it.
00:41:50Well, I wish I were as sure.
00:41:52What was that?
00:41:54I said I...
00:41:56I love you, Johnny.
00:41:58What?
00:42:00Jody!
00:42:02Are you there?
00:42:04Oh, shut up!
00:42:10Oh, boy.
00:42:28Well, it's about time.
00:42:30Sorry.
00:42:32Anything up?
00:42:34No, but you know it's my birthday.
00:42:36The Warks expect me to be taken out for dinner.
00:42:38Well, I kept you anyway.
00:42:40What, you, uh...
00:42:42You've been chasing a bird across muddy fields, have you?
00:42:44George.
00:42:46Go home, George.
00:42:48Go home, George.
00:42:50Chasing a bird across muddy fields at your age.
00:43:08Come on.
00:43:38Mr. Tully, I've taken a retainer from you.
00:43:40I want to give it back.
00:43:44For a lot of reasons, but...
00:43:48Mainly because I'm a fraud.
00:43:52You see, you hired the wrong Jay Baxter.
00:43:56It's my husband who's the detective, not me.
00:44:02Mr. Tully?
00:44:08I know.
00:44:10You know?
00:44:12Mm-hmm.
00:44:16I told you, uh...
00:44:18Jay Baxter was highly recommended to me.
00:44:20When it turned out to be you, I naturally checked back.
00:44:24I'm sorry.
00:44:26Why?
00:44:28I'm satisfied.
00:44:30I want you on the case.
00:44:34Oh.
00:44:36I'm so sorry.
00:44:40You've done well so far.
00:44:42Nothing concrete, of course, but...
00:44:50Looking at it with a woman's eye,
00:44:52I believe you said.
00:44:56Perhaps that's what was always wanted.
00:45:02There has to be one thing
00:45:06He must have made one mistake.
00:45:10Perhaps it needs
00:45:12a woman's eye to discover it.
00:45:24You're tired.
00:45:28You can't possibly drive back to your hotel.
00:45:30Stay here.
00:45:32You...
00:45:42You can have
00:45:44Annabella's room.
00:45:58I know a bank where the wild time flows,
00:46:00And the nodding violet grows,
00:46:02Quite over-canopied
00:46:04With luscious vines,
00:46:06With sweet musk roses
00:46:08And with eglantine.
00:46:12There sleeps
00:46:14Titania.
00:46:30There sleeps
00:46:32Titania.
00:47:00Shh.
00:47:22Shh.
00:47:24Go to sleep.
00:47:30Go to sleep.
00:47:54Where's Charlie?
00:47:56Spencer?
00:47:58Do you need something?
00:48:00No, no, no.
00:48:12On her birthday.
00:48:14Good morning.
00:48:16Good morning.
00:48:18It suits you.
00:48:20The bruise.
00:48:22I like my women with a little imperfection.
00:48:24Perhaps I should send them all over to meet Ingram.
00:48:26No charges, then?
00:48:28No?
00:48:30Well, maybe there's one or two I might like to bring against you.
00:48:32Here.
00:48:34Withholding evidence.
00:48:36Oh, please.
00:48:38That book was up there for anyone to see.
00:48:40Your men obviously overlooked it.
00:48:42Anyway, it's not evidence of anything.
00:48:44Isn't it? Ingram's an actor.
00:48:46Well, he's not necessarily a bad one.
00:48:48The worst Oberon ever.
00:48:50All right.
00:48:52Well, how about fraud, then?
00:48:54You're under thinking you're a detective.
00:48:56No, I already told Mr. Tully the truth.
00:48:58I offered to give him his retainer back.
00:49:00Ask him.
00:49:02It's true.
00:49:04I see.
00:49:06You know, young lady, you're playing with fire.
00:49:08Now, you play with fire,
00:49:10you end up burnt to a crisp.
00:49:12Good morning, Mr. Tully.
00:49:14Good morning.
00:49:20I'm sorry.
00:49:22He was talking.
00:49:24Perhaps I told him too much.
00:49:26No, it's not your fault.
00:49:28Oh, that man.
00:49:30Yes?
00:49:32Phone call, sir.
00:49:34For me?
00:49:36For Miss Baxter.
00:49:38It's from him.
00:49:40From that man, Ingram.
00:49:42Yes, I want to thank you.
00:49:44Well, obviously,
00:49:46you didn't say anything about
00:49:48what happened the other night.
00:49:50Well, nobody's been here.
00:49:54I want to thank you, that's all.
00:49:56No, don't hang up.
00:49:58Listen,
00:50:00what you said that night,
00:50:02the worst Oberon ever,
00:50:04was that important?
00:50:06Well, just because
00:50:08I've heard that expression before
00:50:10and I've remembered where.
00:50:12Williams.
00:50:14At the bookshop.
00:50:16He runs the Amateur Society, has done for years.
00:50:18He must have seen some of the worst Oberon.
00:50:22You can't today, it's Sunday.
00:50:24Hello?
00:50:26Hello?
00:50:48Mr. Williams?
00:51:08Mr. Williams?
00:51:10Mr. Williams?
00:51:22Mr. Williams?
00:51:30Mr. Williams?
00:51:41Oh, thanks very much.
00:51:48Well?
00:51:50You seem to attract violence.
00:51:52The doc says injuries are consistent
00:51:54with the fall down the stairs.
00:51:56Or a chop on the neck.
00:51:58An expert in karate, too.
00:52:00You weren't being very expert
00:52:02when you got that bruise on your face, were you?
00:52:04So it's an accident.
00:52:06Well, that's the first opinion
00:52:08it's an accident.
00:52:10Why?
00:52:12Because you didn't have time to talk to him first?
00:52:14What about, anyway?
00:52:16Oberon.
00:52:18Well, that's stuff in the book.
00:52:20Yes, why not?
00:52:22Williams had an amateur theater group for years.
00:52:24He probably would have remembered
00:52:26the worst Oberon ever.
00:52:28How did you know that?
00:52:30I prefer not to say.
00:52:32Ingram?
00:52:34He told you that?
00:52:36Then maybe Williams didn't fall down the stairs.
00:52:40Morning.
00:52:42What's going on?
00:52:44A sudden death. Accidental.
00:52:46Williams?
00:52:48Yeah. Little Miss Sherlock Holmes here found him.
00:52:50And what the hell are you doing here, anyway?
00:52:52I was just passing by. I saw the car.
00:52:54What happened?
00:52:56A trip fell. Broke his neck.
00:52:58According to the doctor.
00:53:00Poor old Williams.
00:53:02Poor old Williams? Come on.
00:53:04I've seen this hand a few times.
00:53:06So did you.
00:53:08Yeah, but his single job particularly, didn't he?
00:53:10He always gave you the lowest marks for everything.
00:53:12Williams taught school here
00:53:14till he retired and took this place.
00:53:16He was miserable and he was vicious.
00:53:18It made sense that he was one of the few
00:53:20who still talked to Ingram.
00:53:22Two of a kind.
00:53:24Well, Miss Baxter,
00:53:26there's no need for you to hang around.
00:53:28I'll be in touch with you later.
00:53:34Well, now you're here, Charlie,
00:53:36you can give me a hand.
00:53:38I want to take a look upstairs.
00:53:40Mr. Tully...
00:53:42I know about Williams.
00:53:44I can't say I ever liked him.
00:53:46He was too close to Ingram for that,
00:53:48but I am sorry.
00:53:50It was an awful accident.
00:53:52If it was an accident.
00:53:54You mean the police have found something
00:53:56to suggest it wasn't?
00:53:58No.
00:54:00Hmm.
00:54:02Hmm.
00:54:08I have been full of
00:54:10thoughts of vengeance.
00:54:12I have incubated
00:54:14hate for so long.
00:54:16That's why I came to you.
00:54:18But these last few days,
00:54:20I've...
00:54:22I've come to realize
00:54:24that eventually
00:54:26one must forget.
00:54:28Keep picking at an old wound
00:54:30and it never heals.
00:54:32It just goes on hurting.
00:54:38I don't want you to think I'm ungrateful.
00:54:40I am very grateful...
00:54:42Mr. Tully, do you want me to leave?
00:54:44Yes.
00:54:50All right.
00:55:00Tomorrow.
00:55:02I'll leave tomorrow.
00:55:30Mmm.
00:55:48I'm sorry.
00:55:50I misjudged you.
00:55:52You're open to trap him.
00:55:54Ingram.
00:55:56That's why you talked to him.
00:55:58Yes, you'd have to speak
00:56:00to him. Lead him astray.
00:56:02Wait for the moment
00:56:04when he makes that fatal flip
00:56:06and...
00:56:10Mind you, I told him
00:56:12when he first brought her here.
00:56:14Mere child.
00:56:16Told him it'd be
00:56:18hard to take at the end of it.
00:56:20Not right for a bachelor to be
00:56:22bringing up a young girl.
00:56:24No.
00:56:26Not right at all.
00:56:28Now, if he'd married,
00:56:30found himself
00:56:32a good, wholesome woman,
00:56:34someone nearer
00:56:36his own age...
00:56:40I told him.
00:56:56Mmm.
00:57:08See, if you could
00:57:10prove Ingram did it,
00:57:12that'd set Mr. Tully's mind at rest.
00:57:14Then, perhaps
00:57:16he'd start looking
00:57:18and seeing his way clear to...
00:57:26Mmm.
00:57:56We are there.
00:57:58You meant it then!
00:58:00It lies in you!
00:58:02Why should
00:58:04Titania cross her Oberon?
00:58:06I do but beg
00:58:08a little
00:58:10changeling boy
00:58:12to be my henchman.
00:58:18Why should Titania
00:58:20cross
00:58:22her Oberon?
00:58:24Cross her Oberon.
00:58:38PHONE RINGS
00:58:42CID?
00:58:44Oh, yes, Miss Baxter.
00:58:46Speaking.
00:58:48What can I do for you?
00:58:50I just want to check something out on the autopsy report
00:58:52on Annabella Tully. Could you have a look for me?
00:58:54I don't have to look.
00:58:56I know that one backwards.
00:58:58What do you want to know?
00:59:00Well, wasn't there something about dirt
00:59:02or earth being found under her fingernails?
00:59:04Yes.
00:59:06Earth was found under the nails of both hands.
00:59:08Why?
00:59:10But it was established she was attacked
00:59:12from a standing position and then fell onto her back, right?
00:59:14Yes, but...
00:59:16Oh, I'm just following a hunch.
00:59:18Um, one more question.
00:59:22Well, that was yesterday, but why...
00:59:26Hello?
00:59:28What's she on about now?
00:59:30I don't know.
00:59:32Didn't make sense.
00:59:36Nothing.
00:59:40See you later.
00:59:52Mr. Tully,
00:59:54I think I'm about to earn that fee.
00:59:58And all because of a plastic bag.
01:00:00Bag?
01:00:02Yes, you see,
01:00:04Annabella bought a book to give to someone, right?
01:00:06And then she put it
01:00:08in a plastic bag.
01:00:10Now, why not paper?
01:00:12Why not paper?
01:00:14I don't know.
01:00:16I don't know.
01:00:18I don't know.
01:00:20Now, why not paper
01:00:22and a ribbon?
01:00:24Because she was going to
01:00:26hide it,
01:00:28bury it.
01:00:30Mr. Tully, out in the
01:00:32woods in a place that
01:00:34only she and Oberon
01:00:36would know about.
01:00:38Believe me, Mr. Tully,
01:00:40a young girl in love would do that kind of thing.
01:00:42Now, I bet
01:00:44you that book is still there
01:00:46with her inscription
01:00:48on the flyleaf and his name.
01:00:50The killer's
01:00:52name, Mr. Tully.
01:00:54I'm going to find out.
01:00:56That wood is two miles wide. It could be anywhere.
01:00:58No, there's only one place
01:01:00that it could be.
01:01:02This loam,
01:01:04this rough cast,
01:01:06and this stone doth show.
01:01:10Mr. Tully, for a theater
01:01:12buff, you don't know too much about Shakespeare.
01:01:14The wall.
01:01:18I'm talking about the wall,
01:01:20Mr. Tully, through which
01:01:22the lovers did whisper often and
01:01:24very secretly.
01:01:48The wall.
01:02:18♪
01:02:48♪
01:02:50♪
01:02:52♪
01:02:54♪
01:02:56♪
01:02:58♪
01:03:00♪
01:03:02♪
01:03:04♪
01:03:06You're clever.
01:03:08Very clever.
01:03:12I often wondered about that dirt
01:03:14under her fingernails.
01:03:18♪
01:03:20♪
01:03:22♪
01:03:24♪
01:03:26♪
01:03:28♪
01:03:30You.
01:03:32The worst oberon.
01:03:34Yes, but don't forget the
01:03:36ever. Williams never did.
01:03:38Just ten years old I was
01:03:40and he leaned on me.
01:03:42Shouldn't have told her.
01:03:44Shouldn't have...
01:03:46♪
01:03:48I had a wife and kids.
01:03:50She knew that. If it had come out,
01:03:52I'd kill my chances of promotion.
01:03:54She knew that too.
01:03:56Precocious little...
01:03:58♪
01:04:00♪
01:04:02I'm sorry.
01:04:04♪
01:04:06♪
01:04:08George!
01:04:10♪
01:04:12♪
01:04:14You're big, George.
01:04:16Bigger than me.
01:04:18But remember at school,
01:04:20big as you were,
01:04:22I always took you apart.
01:04:24You never won.
01:04:34George.
01:04:38Sit down, George.
01:04:44Sit down.
01:04:52You can't ask a question like that.
01:04:54When was his birthday?
01:04:56I did not expect to arouse my curiosity.
01:05:00I've been following him since.
01:05:04Why did you ask it?
01:05:06Women's intuition.
01:05:10Was that his birthday present?
01:05:12♪
01:05:28It's crazy.
01:05:30It is ridiculous.
01:05:32Jody, it's unethical.
01:05:34Okay.
01:05:36Oh, come on, Johnny.
01:05:38It's money. It's a side check.
01:05:40I did a good job.
01:05:42Oh, what am I gonna do?
01:05:44Cash it. And cash in on me. I'm useful.
01:05:46Very.
01:05:48Oh, come on, Johnny.
01:05:50Cut me in as an equal partner, huh?
01:05:52We'll work together.
01:05:54Work together?
01:05:56You mean...
01:05:58you and me...
01:06:00here?
01:06:02Oh, yes.
01:06:06Okay.
01:06:08Oh, Johnny.
01:06:12Partners again.
01:06:14Uh-huh.
01:06:16Baxter and Baxter.
01:06:22♪
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